Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 649 476 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.06% 14.04% 9.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.20% 52.77% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 452 364 287
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,050
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £72,275 £76,950
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,375 902 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.07% 26.60% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 959 651 613
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,050
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,739 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £79,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +1 206 £60,000 +9.09% 81
Essex -1 151 £40,000 +6.67% 63
Cambridgeshire -16 129 £53,000 +57.04% 107
Suffolk +30 76 £34,750 -30.50% 29
Norfolk -1 61 £55,000 +10.00% 32
Bedfordshire -21 25 £38,250 +12.50% 29
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 109 (16.80%) SharePoint
2 53 (8.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.69%) WordPress
4 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.46%) IIS
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) Confluence
7 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 45 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.31%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 207 (31.90%) Microsoft 365
2 123 (18.95%) Entra ID
3 94 (14.48%) Power Platform
4 84 (12.94%) Azure AI
5 72 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (10.79%) AWS
7 66 (10.17%) OneDrive
8 35 (5.39%) PowerApps
9 33 (5.08%) Power Automate
10 28 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 24 (3.70%) GitHub
12 23 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (3.08%) GCP
15 18 (2.77%) SaaS
16 17 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
18 15 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 15 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.86%) Firewall
2 69 (10.63%) DNS
3 53 (8.17%) DHCP
3 53 (8.17%) VPN
4 38 (5.86%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.77%) Wireless
6 15 (2.31%) MQTT
7 12 (1.85%) VLAN
8 11 (1.69%) Internet
8 11 (1.69%) Network Security
8 11 (1.69%) VoIP
8 11 (1.69%) WAN
9 10 (1.54%) LAN
10 8 (1.23%) PBX
11 6 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.62%) DMZ
12 4 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.46%) Broadband
13 3 (0.46%) SSL
14 2 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (15.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 73 (11.25%) Power BI
3 56 (8.63%) MongoDB
4 32 (4.93%) Tableau
5 30 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 26 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.62%) MySQL
10 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.46%) Looker
11 3 (0.46%) Metadata
11 3 (0.46%) Milvus
11 3 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 21 (3.24%) Git
2 12 (1.85%) JIRA
3 4 (0.62%) Selenium
3 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.46%) git-flow
4 3 (0.46%) MLflow
4 3 (0.46%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.31%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 304 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 62 (9.55%) Finance
3 27 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (2.16%) Legal
4 14 (2.16%) Marketing
5 13 (2.00%) Law
5 13 (2.00%) Retail
6 12 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.39%) Games
9 6 (0.92%) Advertising
10 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.62%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.46%) Aviation
12 3 (0.46%) Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 151 (23.27%) Developer
2 113 (17.41%) IT Support
3 98 (15.10%) Analyst
4 82 (12.63%) .NET Developer
5 79 (12.17%) Support Engineer
6 78 (12.02%) IT Engineer
7 68 (10.48%) Senior
8 66 (10.17%) Junior
9 65 (10.02%) IT Support Engineer
10 61 (9.40%) Junior Analyst
11 34 (5.24%) Security Analyst
12 33 (5.08%) Lead
13 32 (4.93%) Network Engineer
13 32 (4.93%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.62%) Data Analyst
15 29 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
15 29 (4.47%) Graduate
15 29 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 28 (4.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 28 (4.31%) Junior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (18.18%) .NET
2 96 (14.79%) .NET Core
3 78 (12.02%) ASP.NET
4 77 (11.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 60 (9.24%) CSS
6 55 (8.47%) RESTful
7 54 (8.32%) HTML
8 35 (5.39%) Entity Framework
9 34 (5.24%) React
10 30 (4.62%) ML.NET
11 28 (4.31%) Blazor
11 28 (4.31%) Node.js
12 24 (3.70%) Terraform
13 22 (3.39%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.24%) ASP.NET Web API
15 20 (3.08%) Vue
16 19 (2.93%) Kafka
16 19 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
17 18 (2.77%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (2.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.32%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.16%) Driving Licence
3 32 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 28 (4.31%) Cyberattack
5 15 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.69%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.08%) CCTV
10 7 (1.08%) iPhone
11 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.92%) Digital TV
11 6 (0.92%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.92%) PKI
11 6 (0.92%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.77%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 156 (24.04%) Windows
2 88 (13.56%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.47%) Linux
4 14 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.69%) Android
8 9 (1.39%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.31%) Unix
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (21.42%) AI
2 133 (20.49%) Cybersecurity
3 119 (18.34%) Agile
4 100 (15.41%) Mentoring
5 94 (14.48%) DevOps
6 86 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (12.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 77 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
9 75 (11.56%) CI/CD
9 75 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (8.47%) Machine Learning
11 53 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 43 (6.63%) Roadmaps
13 41 (6.32%) Cloud Security
13 41 (6.32%) Computer Science
14 40 (6.16%) Service Delivery
15 36 (5.55%) Containerisation
15 36 (5.55%) ITIL
15 36 (5.55%) User Experience
16 35 (5.39%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 201 (30.97%) SQL
2 145 (22.34%) C#
3 105 (16.18%) Python
4 59 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 56 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 39 (6.01%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.08%) PHP
8 12 (1.85%) C++
9 11 (1.69%) Java
10 9 (1.39%) Bicep
11 8 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.77%) Rust
13 4 (0.62%) Bash
13 4 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.46%) Ruby
14 3 (0.46%) Scala
15 2 (0.31%) Go
16 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (24.50%) Azure Certification
2 77 (11.86%) Degree
3 37 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (5.39%) CompTIA Security+
5 30 (4.62%) CCNA
5 30 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.31%) CEH
6 28 (4.31%) CompTIA CySA+
7 27 (4.16%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.16%) Security Cleared
10 8 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.23%) SC Cleared
11 7 (1.08%) CCNP
12 5 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.77%) CISSP
13 3 (0.46%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.46%) CCSK
13 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.62%) QA
2 27 (4.16%) GDPR
2 27 (4.16%) SLA
3 21 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.77%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.00%) NIST
6 8 (1.23%) NCSC
7 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.92%) GRC
8 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.77%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.62%) PMO
11 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (22.19%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.86%) Hyper-V
3 37 (5.70%) Docker
4 31 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (12.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.92%) SCCM
4 5 (0.77%) Ansible
5 3 (0.46%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 459 (70.72%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.33%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.55%) Cisco
4 36 (5.55%) VMware
5 27 (4.16%) Apple
6 21 (3.24%) Google
7 15 (2.31%) Adobe
8 13 (2.00%) Facebook
8 13 (2.00%) Meraki
9 10 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.54%) Ubiquiti
9 10 (1.54%) Veeam
10 8 (1.23%) Databricks
11 7 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.08%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.77%) Sony
12 5 (0.77%) Yahoo!
13 4 (0.62%) Citrix
13 4 (0.62%) Epicor
13 4 (0.62%) SAP